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Pinellas County, Florida -- Pinellas County transit riders can now enjoy the convenience of purchasing PSTA GO Cards at all 28 Pinellas Amscot locations.

The announcement was made Tuesday by Jeff Danner, PSTA Board Chairman and St. Petersburg City Councilmember, and Deveron Gibbons, Amscot’s Vice President of Public Affairs and Business Development.

The two celebrated the new partnership with a ceremonial sale of a PSTA GO Card at the Amscot Financial location at 3266 Central Ave, which is next door to PSTA’s Grand Central Station.

“PSTA provided more than 14 million rides last year and ridership this year is already up another 9%. Those increases have created a higher demand for ticket outlet locations,” says Danner. “This new partnership will help meet that demand and make it much more convenient for riders to get GO Cards and use PSTA.”

PSTA currently has 25 ticket outlets throughout Pinellas County, which sell more than 7,100 GO Cards every month. This new partnership with Amscot Financial will more than double the locations at which Pinellas residents and tourists can buy bus passes.

“We have customer comment cards in every store and we’ve been getting requests to sell PSTA GO Cards on a regular basis,” says Gibbons. “It’s important to us to be responsive to the community and honor those requests. In fact, it won’t be long before we carry PSTA passes in some of our Hillsborough and Pasco locations as well.”

Amscot staff has even programmed the computers in the Pinellas locations to automatically take employees through an online training that teaches them how to sell the bus passes. “It gets them up to speed more quickly and ensures that our customers get the fastest possible service,” adds Gibbons. A list of the Pinellas Amscot locations can be found at www.amscotfinancial.com and selection and pricing for PSTA GO Cards can be found at www.PSTA.net.